The Rain in the Trees
Author: Merwin, W. S.
ISBN: 9780394758589
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 12 Mar 1988
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A volume of poems concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and with history and how the world endures it-fb>rom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and "one of the greatest poets of our age ... the Thoreau of our era" (Edward Hirsch). /b>br>/b>br>A literary event-a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry-i>The Rain in the Trees /i>is W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication of his i>Opening the Hand.br>br>/i>Almost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments on the passing of history over the contemporary scene. To do this, he seems to have reinvented the poem-so that the experience of reading Merwin is unlike the reading of any other poetry. In such famous books as i>The Lice, The Moving Target/i> and (most recently) i>Opening the Hand,/i> he has produced a body of work of great profundity and power made from the simplest and most beautiful poetic speech.br>br>Merwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this is the case.
ISBN: 9780394758589
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 12 Mar 1988
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A volume of poems concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and with history and how the world endures it-fb>rom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and "one of the greatest poets of our age ... the Thoreau of our era" (Edward Hirsch). /b>br>/b>br>A literary event-a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry-i>The Rain in the Trees /i>is W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication of his i>Opening the Hand.br>br>/i>Almost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments on the passing of history over the contemporary scene. To do this, he seems to have reinvented the poem-so that the experience of reading Merwin is unlike the reading of any other poetry. In such famous books as i>The Lice, The Moving Target/i> and (most recently) i>Opening the Hand,/i> he has produced a body of work of great profundity and power made from the simplest and most beautiful poetic speech.br>br>Merwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this is the case.
